Festivus News

To repurpose a phrase from Seinfeld , 2009 Fun Fun Fun Fest is the Festivus for the rest of us, a two-day alternative holiday for all the freaks and geeks.

It's hard to sell a book of short stories. But not if you're John Grisham. The author of "A Time to Kill," "The Client" and other blockbusters has written his first collection of short fiction, "Ford County," set in the Mississippi community he has used often in his fiction.

I know many of you were looking forward to celebrating Festivus this year, but Slow Food has an even better winter holiday to take part in.

Don't tell former Gourmet editor-in-chief Ruth Reichl this week's closing of the venerable food magazine reflects any sort of judgment on the food elite.

Remember that comedian whose television show ruled the 1990s and turned Festivus into a national holiday? Well now Jerry Seinfeld is on the other side of the camera producing the reality show The Marriage Ref , a show with a premise as terrible as Bridezillas : Let's find couples that fight with each other, then bring in a marriage referee to call ...

"Plum" also paid endless attention to detail. On display is a letter to the novelist Arnold Bennett, thanking him for his praise.

A federal judge Thursday tossed out a cookbook author's claim that comedian Jerry Seinfeld's wife was a culinary copycat when she came out with her own book explaining how to entice children to eat vegetables.

Now comes the sad news that Reader's Digest has declared bankruptcy, a phrase that cracks me up ever since seeing Michael Scott, the idiot boss on "The Office," walk around solemnly and loudly announcing, "I Declare Bankruptcy" thinking that was all there was to it.

Sir, you're going to have to take that outside. After Bill O'Reilly made Olympia ground zero for the culture wars last year, objecting to an atheist sign beside a Nativity scene in the Capitol and setting off a frenzied debate over religious and anti-religious displays , the state decided it's not taking any risks this year--at least not inside ...

Sir, you're going to have to take that outside. After Bill O'Reilly made Olympia ground zero for the culture wars last year, objecting to an atheist sign beside a Nativity scene in the Capitol and setting off a frenzied debate over religious and anti-religious displays , the state decided it's not taking any risks this year--at least not inside ...

After 11 years, Jerry, Elaine, George and Kramer are planning a return to the small screen -- but not for an actual "Seinfeld" reunion show.

A former official at the U.S. consulate in Toronto was sentenced to a year in prison Wednesday for expediting visas in exchange for gifts of jewelry and trips with exotic dancers.

End Oregon Craft Beer Month with with some of the most popular and biggest winter beers in Portland.

At last report, Jason Alexander of "Seinfeld" fame was holding his own at the World Series of Poker.

Malian singer Oumou Sangare makes a rare U.S. appearance Friday, July 17, in Cabot as part of the seventh annual Sol Harvest Festivus for the Restivus.

Find out more about Michael: Michael Sheena has been a car nut for as long as he can remember.

Puffy shirts, Soup Nazis, jerk stores, low-talkers, high-talkers, close-talkers, and even a Festivus for the rest of us - not bad for a contest about nothing.

Puffy shirts, Soup Nazis, jerk stores, low-talkers, high-talkers, close-talkers, and even a Festivus for the rest of us - not bad for a contest about nothing.

I thought FOX had to be playing a joke on Tim McCarver -- and the viewing public -- when it played a clip from McCarver's supposed "new album" during the Yankees-Mets broadcast on Saturday.

I couldn't help thinking of George this week when a story broke about an Ohio man who became so enraged at his father's request to clean up his room, he threw a plate of food at the offending parent and balled up his fist in anger.